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A family study of juvenile obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie - 1 May 2001
Reddy P S, Reddy Y C, Srinath S, Khanna S, Sheshadri S P, Girimaji S R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether juvenile obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is familial and whether the rate of Tourette syndrome (TS) and tic disorders is higher among relatives of patients with OCD than among relatives of controls subjects. METHOD: We assessed first-degree relatives of 35 juvenile OCD probands (aged 16 years or less) and 34 matched, psychiatrically unaffected control subjects, using the...
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